Coldest Weather I've been in

Doctor Damage · Jan 7, 2014

Great stuff guys, yeah it's definitely cold here in Ontario. But I can see from my bedroom window a wall of clouds headed down the lake (Lake Erie) to Buffalo and indeed that fair city and most of western NY is being hammered. By contrast, though cold and windy, it's sunny just a short distance away here in the Niagara Region.

Doctor Damage · Jan 7, 2014

Dumpster Diver said:
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Got me a pair of these Canadian Army issue Mukluks and Gauntlets the other day, the Mukluks were 80 bucks, and the Gauntles 50.

Worth Every penny, my feet have never been warmer.

Where did you get those? Local surplus store?

Stand By · Jan 7, 2014

Smithy said:
That's some serious sheepskin action going on there. But hope you've got your thermals on though otherwise a bad case of cold bum!

Oh yes, Smithy. What you can't see are my modern thermal leggings under my Eddie Bauer flannel-lined cargo pants. I have a LL Bean River Driver shirt beneath my warmest and favourite pure new wool English-made sweater. And the liners under the A-10s ... toasty.

Smithy · Jan 7, 2014

Stand By said:
Oh yes, Smithy. What you can't see are my modern thermal leggings under my Eddie Bauer flannel-lined cargo pants. I have a LL Bean River Driver shirt beneath my warmest and favourite pure new wool English-made sweater. And the liners under the A-10s ... toasty.

Good to know Stand By. Nothing worse than being toasty on the topside and freezing your backside off down below!

Hope you're keeping warm and driving very slowly in the conditions we're hearing about in the news.

Swoosed · Jan 7, 2014

today, in my front yard. 5 degrees

Aerojoe · Jan 7, 2014

Stand By said:
I have a "Buff" similar to this, but it's a thin material and good for cool Autumn days only ... I'll look into this though, and hopefully they have a thicker fleece material too. Thanks Aerojoe!

There are "neck gaiters" in fleece;

Military headovers are cotton with 5-10% spandex. They are larger than regular neck gaiters. You can extend them all over your head or you can fold them and have two layers around your neck.

Whatever it is, a shorter neckgaiter or a headover, we are talking about expending 5-10 bucks at most

BTW, yahoo just published the picture of a guy wearing one of these in Illinois;

"Dude" looks great

IXL · Jan 7, 2014

^^^^ These are what I wear while riding motorcycles in cold weather.

pauleway · Jan 7, 2014

Doctor Damage said:
Great stuff guys, yeah it's definitely cold here in Ontario. But I can see from my bedroom window a wall of clouds headed down the lake (Lake Erie) to Buffalo and indeed that fair city and most of western NY is being hammered. By contrast, though cold and windy, it's sunny just a short distance away here in the Niagara Region.

I am in the "Belly of the Beast"as we speak. I live in the southtowns of Buffalo and it's been snowing and blowing for the last 24 hours with no relief in site!!:eeek::eusa_doh:

gtdean48 · Jan 7, 2014

Marquette, MI at -13, wind chill -35. Never want to be that cold again...

Dr H · Jan 7, 2014

Doctor Damage said:
Great stuff guys, yeah it's definitely cold here in Ontario. But I can see from my bedroom window a wall of clouds headed down the lake (Lake Erie) to Buffalo and indeed that fair city and most of western NY is being hammered. By contrast, though cold and windy, it's sunny just a short distance away here in the Niagara Region.

The ridge combined with the falls create a microclimate in Niagara.

Doctor Damage · Jan 7, 2014

Dr H said:
The ridge combined with the falls create a microclimate in Niagara.

Interesting, I did not know that. However, I'm on the cold part, i.e. south of the Escarpment.

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Here's what I wore today and every day that it gets really cold: old CF extreme weather parka, with wool-lined hood. At most angles that hood keeps the wind off you extremely well.

Dr H · Jan 7, 2014

I attended a polymer conference in Niagara Falls in 2013 and visited several vineyards; the effect of the escarpment on the temperature/rainfall came up in all of the tour guide's spiel.
A good year for ice wine perhaps?

Doctor Damage · Jan 7, 2014

Dr H said:
I attended a polymer conference in Niagara Falls in 2013 and visited several vineyards; the effect of the escarpment on the temperature/rainfall came up in all of the tour guide's spiel.
A good year for ice wine perhaps?

I think they already harvested, back in NOvember if my memory serves. The last two or three years were really warm, which I suspect is going to be more normal for us, which will be better for the grapes. That is, if they ever stop building houses and strip plazas on prime quality farmland...

Worf · Jan 8, 2014

Doctor Damage said:
I think they already harvested, back in NOvember if my memory serves. The last two or three years were really warm, which I suspect is going to be more normal for us, which will be better for the grapes. That is, if they ever stop building houses and strip plazas on prime quality farmland...

That's the way winter's USED to be. Ton's of snow... ripping cold... Brutal! When Spring came you knew you'd earned it!

Worf

dhermann1 · Jan 14, 2014

Well, growing up in Western New York State, we had PLENTY of cold weather. Several times it got 30 below F, over night, but I was warmly tucked into bed at the time.
But I do remember one stretch around 1962 or 63, where it was minus 18F every morning when I went to school. That lasted about 5 days. Brrrr!!!

Seb Lucas · Jan 14, 2014

Wish I could have borrowed some cold fellows - it was 110 degrees here today. My shoes melted in the melting asphalt.

Smithy · Jan 14, 2014

Seb Lucas said:
Wish I could have borrowed some cold fellows - it was 110 degrees here today. My shoes melted in the melting asphalt.

I know what you mean Seb, where I was today showed 45.7 Celsius (114).

Give me the polar vortex any day, at least you can bloody rug up

Stanley Doble · Jan 14, 2014

Well boys there is plenty of room at the inn. Maybe this will be the new holiday fashion, Aussies coming to Canada to enjoy the refreshing 30 below weather after all that oppressive sunshine and heat.

Hal · Jan 15, 2014

And we in the UK have had six consecutive months of above-average temperatures and six consecutive weeks of wet, wild and windy weather. The wind has now largely gone, but the rain and higher temperatures (10C and above) continue. Let's have some sunny frosty weather - real winter! It doesn't usually cause the damage we have endured from floods and high winds. Low temperatures can be dealt with by means of clothing, as Smithy says; with high temperatures, thermal comfort is much more difficult to achieve.

Smithy · Jan 15, 2014

Hal said:
And we in the UK have had six consecutive months of above-average temperatures and six consecutive weeks of wet, wild and windy weather. The wind has now largely gone, but the rain and higher temperatures (10C and above) continue. Let's have some sunny frosty weather - real winter! It doesn't usually cause the damage we have endured from floods and high winds. Low temperatures can be dealt with by means of clothing, as Smithy says; with high temperatures, thermal comfort is much more difficult to achieve.

10 Celsius sounds like pure bliss Hal. As I sit here it's currently 33.9 at 9:35pm. We hit 41 in the arvo. Tomorrow is going to be over 40 as is Friday.

Couldn't sleep last night as the temp didn't drop below 30 until 5am so sat in the garden drinking ice cold beers and watching the "dry lightning" storm - a very eerie occurrence where you have a lightning storm but no rain.

Although I've lived here for over 5 years I'm still not accustomed to this fierce heat (I'm a Kiwi) and am quite looking forward to moving back to Norway late this year. I can deal with the cold but when it's blindingly hot there's only so much you can do and even so you're never 100% comfortable.

Enjoy the 10 degrees you lucky bugger

Cheers,

Tim

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